Guido Pablo Korman

The origins and professionalization of cognitive psychotherapy in Argentina.

The growing popularity of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has helped reshape the mental health scene in the city of Buenos Aires, historically the stronghold of psychoanalysis. In the early 1980s, CBT was infrequently used and sometimes overtly resisted in the field of mental health. Almost 3 decades later, the impact of CBT has increased dramatically in Argentina, not only in independent practice but also in the health system and in everyday life. This article aims to describe the process by which Argentine psychotherapists first adopted this new theoretical framework.

Interactions Between Alternative Therapies and Mental Health Services in Public Hospitals of Argentina

In this article, the authors describe the phenomenon of therapeutic complementarity between alternatives therapies and biomedicine in public hospitals of Buenos Aires (Argentina). They contextualize the phenomenon in a global and local field. Features specific to Argentina make this phenomenon interesting. The first of these is that biomedicine is the only type of medicine that is legally authorized to act on the body; nevertheless, alternative practices have flourished not only in the private health sector but also in the public hospitals run by the state. A second feature refers to the alternative practices in the Mental Health Area that bring about a singular interaction between two different therapeutic models. Based on a qualitative study in public hospitals, the authors look into the reasons that generate the phenomenon, underlining the forms in which it expresses itself and the complexity of a field under construction that implies the resignification of the concepts related to health and disease.

Psychological Interventions for Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES)

Fil: Korman, Guido Pablo. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas; Argentina

Crossing the Rubicon: from psychoanalysis to cognitive therapy

Neste trabalho, descrevemos algumas das causas que levam Aaron T. Beck a abandonar a psicanalise e participar da criacao da terapia cognitiva. Com este objetivo, vamos descrever os trabalhos de investigacao desenvolvidos por Beck entre 1959 e 1962, quando comeca a processar os dados que derrubarao a hipotese explicativa psicanalitica da depressao. Nesta analise, incluiremos alguns elementos que consideramos essenciais para entender esse processo de mudanca: a obtencao de um subsidio para pesquisar a depressao e a presenca de colaboradores como Marvin Hurvich e Seygmour Feshbach, cujas novas ferramentas e metodologias ajudaram Beck a testar a hipotese psicanalitica da depressao. Por ultimo, incluiremos questoes que se referem as politicas de investigacao do Instituto Nacional de Saude Mental, assim como motivos pessoais e de politica institucional.Neste trabalho, descrevemos algumas das causas que levam Aaron T. Beck a abandonar a psicanalise e participar da criacao da terapia cognitiva. Com este objetivo, vamos descrever os trabalhos de investigacao desenvolvidos por Beck entre 1959 e 1962, quando comeca a processar os dados que derrubarao a hipotese explicativa psicanalitica da depressao. Nesta analise, incluiremos alguns elementos que consideramos essenciais para entender esse processo de mudanca: a obtencao de um subsidio para pesquisar a depressao e a presenca de colaboradores como Marvin Hurvich e Seygmour Feshbach, cujas novas ferramentas e metodologias ajudaram Beck a testar a hipotese psicanalitica da depressao. Por ultimo, incluiremos questoes que se referem as politicas de investigacao do Instituto Nacional de Saude Mental, assim como motivos pessoais e de politica institucional.In this study we describe some of the reasons that lead Aaron T Beck to move away from psychoanalysis and participate in the creation of cognitive therapy. With this aim in view, we describe the research developed by Beck between 1959 and 1962. In these studies the data that promotes the fall of the psychoanalytic explanatory hypothesis for depression began to be processed. Within this analysis we include some elements that we consider essential to understand this process of change: From Beck ́s obtaining a grant to investigate depression and his starting to work with collaborators like Marvin Hurvich and Sigmour Feshbach, whose new tools and methodologies helped Beck to test a psychoanalytic hypothesis of depression. Finally, we will include questions related to the research policies of the National Institute of Mental Health, and some commentaries about personal and institutional policy reasons that influenced Beck’s work.

Cruzando el Rubicón: del psicoanálisis a la terapia cognitiva

Neste trabalho, descrevemos algumas das causas que levam Aaron T. Beck a abandonar a psicanalise e participar da criacao da terapia cognitiva. Com este objetivo, vamos descrever os trabalhos de investigacao desenvolvidos por Beck entre 1959 e 1962, quando comeca a processar os dados que derrubarao a hipotese explicativa psicanalitica da depressao. Nesta analise, incluiremos alguns elementos que consideramos essenciais para entender esse processo de mudanca: a obtencao de um subsidio para pesquisar a depressao e a presenca de colaboradores como Marvin Hurvich e Seygmour Feshbach, cujas novas ferramentas e metodologias ajudaram Beck a testar a hipotese psicanalitica da depressao. Por ultimo, incluiremos questoes que se referem as politicas de investigacao do Instituto Nacional de Saude Mental, assim como motivos pessoais e de politica institucional.Neste trabalho, descrevemos algumas das causas que levam Aaron T. Beck a abandonar a psicanalise e participar da criacao da terapia cognitiva. Com este objetivo, vamos descrever os trabalhos de investigacao desenvolvidos por Beck entre 1959 e 1962, quando comeca a processar os dados que derrubarao a hipotese explicativa psicanalitica da depressao. Nesta analise, incluiremos alguns elementos que consideramos essenciais para entender esse processo de mudanca: a obtencao de um subsidio para pesquisar a depressao e a presenca de colaboradores como Marvin Hurvich e Seygmour Feshbach, cujas novas ferramentas e metodologias ajudaram Beck a testar a hipotese psicanalitica da depressao. Por ultimo, incluiremos questoes que se referem as politicas de investigacao do Instituto Nacional de Saude Mental, assim como motivos pessoais e de politica institucional.In this study we describe some of the reasons that lead Aaron T Beck to move away from psychoanalysis and participate in the creation of cognitive therapy. With this aim in view, we describe the research developed by Beck between 1959 and 1962. In these studies the data that promotes the fall of the psychoanalytic explanatory hypothesis for depression began to be processed. Within this analysis we include some elements that we consider essential to understand this process of change: From Beck ́s obtaining a grant to investigate depression and his starting to work with collaborators like Marvin Hurvich and Sigmour Feshbach, whose new tools and methodologies helped Beck to test a psychoanalytic hypothesis of depression. Finally, we will include questions related to the research policies of the National Institute of Mental Health, and some commentaries about personal and institutional policy reasons that influenced Beck’s work.

The Gap in Knowledge of Clinical Practice Guidelines by Mental Health Residents in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate if the residents of psychiatry and clinical psychology from the city of Buenos Aires knew any of the existing mental health Clinical Practice and Treatment Guidelines (CPTGs). We asked residents their opinion about CPTGs and, also, if they followed their recommendations in clinical practice. We asked 59 mental health residents (28 physicians and 29 psychologists) with different years of clinical training to fill a questionnaire to know their opinion about CPTGs and also if they follow the CPTG recommendations in their clinical practice. We found that 79.31% of residents did not know any CPTG. Eighty percent of the residents who did know any CPTG have a positive opinion about CPTGs. Finally, the American Psychiatric Association Guidelines were the most known CPTGs. The authors emphasize the need for a clinical guidelines diffusion policy in Buenos Aires city and particularly as a clinical and training resource for mental health residents.